Didn''t care much for Hurdle's lineup last night, taking Snider, Alvarez and Jones out so that he could get McKenry in there? I hope all three are back today and continue to hit. I'm certainly not an expert, but I do have functional observation skills, you do not bench Alvarez when he is getting on a hot streak. There's two things that I know about Alvarez, he hits better in the 6th spot and his HR's come in bunches.

He had 37 AA starts before this year. That's pretty much one season. And he's 23. I'd love for all of our pitchers to be dominating the majors at 23 like Kershaw, but I'll let it slide if he waits till he's 25.

ulf wrote:He had 37 AA starts before this year. That's pretty much one season. And he's 23. I'd love for all of our pitchers to be dominating the majors at 23 like Kershaw, but I'll let it slide if he waits till he's 25.

Can still point to sample size, I mean if you want to point at Pimentel as something, we should probably annoint Allie the next Ryan Howard and label Hanson a bust.

Huh? lol all I'm saying is that he's had a good year without anyone noticing. He was previously a high rated prospect, and the Sox rushed him through. His second half of AA ball was tons better than the first half, and now that he's on a normal track for a 23 year old, he's doing very well.

Bullpen "hasn't missed a beat with the addition of Melancon" yet "we traded Hanrahan for scrubs"... wasn't that the main piece of the trade?

You didn't care much for the lineup yesterday... we went with the righty lineup, only questionable decision was sitting Alvarez as he's heating up but I can understand not wanting him to get thrown off by a lefty who has been lights out this year. Most teams would sit most if not all of their leftys in that situation...

One minute you're complaining Pimentel is in his 3rd year of AA, the next you're saying his AA sample size is too small to deduce anything?